Archived updates for Thursday, January 26, 2006

Cybersquatting Data and Information from WIPO

An average of 4 UDRP and UDRP-based cases were filed with WIPO per calendar day in 2005, bringing the total number of cases received in 2005 to 1,456 – an increase of 280 cases (almost 20%) as compared to 2004.

Of the total of 8,354 UDRP and UDRP-based cases the Center has received, 8,054 (96.41%) have been resolved. In the 6,349 decisions they have rendered, WIPO panels have found for the complainant in 5,327 (83.9%) cases. The remainder of the resolved cases were settled by the parties.

WIPO’s UDRP and UDRP-based cases filed since 1999 have by now covered some 16,000 separate domain names.

Most disputes concern international domains, with .com again representing over 80% of names involved. However, in 2005 the Center also dealt with 44 cases involving country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

The Center’s new report, "New Generic Top-Level Domains: Intellectual Property Considerations", recommends the introduction of a uniform preventive intellectual property protection mechanism in all new gTLDs, in order to complement the curative relief provided by the UDRP. The Report is available at http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/reports/newgtld-ip.

The next Center training events: WIPO Workshop for Mediators in Intellectual Property Disputes on June 15 and 16, 2006; WIPO Advanced Workshop for Mediators in Intellectual Property Disputes on June 19 and 20, 2006. Program information and registration at http://arbiter.wipo.int/events/index.

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